QUITE a long time ago I received a snail mail letter from our good friend Trese, WHO is one of the funniest people I have ever met.

Trese is smart, vulnerable, real, witty, introverted, and a gift giver. We have a framed picture of her asleep in a van with her mouth open in our living room. She is also really funny (just in case you didn't catch that the first time) and wrote us a story while she was at jury duty, about how she wanted to see a bear and the next thing she knew she saw a bear.

Trese also sent us a Kroger card for a $20 date night. She gave us specific instructions to purchase something that was blue as well as something we could make something new with. Blue and new. We accepted the challenge!